Using Existing Large-Scale Data to Study Early Care and Education among Hispanics: Project Overview and Methodology

Author

Danielle A. Crosby

Julia Mendez

To promote the well-informed and strategic use of data for building the knowledge base about Latinos’ ECE access and utilization, the interrelated briefs in this series provide summary information and data tables that can be used by researchers to select the studies, samples, and variables most appropriate for their research questions.

This is the first of four briefs in this series. It describes the project methodology and summarizes key design features of the selected data sets, including the availability of sociodemographic indicators of particular relevance to studying Hispanic populations.

The National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families (Center) is supported by grant #90PH0028 from the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Center is led by Child Trends, in partnership with Duke University, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and University of Maryland, College Park. The contents of this website are solely the responsibility of the Center and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, the Administration for Children and Families, or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.